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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2004
Applicants:
Tetsuya Takafuji, Anjo, JP;
Yoshiyuki Hattori, Toyoake, JP;
Shinichi Kiribayashi, Anjo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
DENSO Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A collision object discrimination apparatus for vehicles includes two collision detection sensors for discriminating kinds of a collision object based on two sensor outputs. The collision object is determined based on a collision width (W) detected by a collision width detection sensor fitted to a vehicle body. Alternatively, the collision object is determined based on a difference between operation characteristics of the two sensors. Further alternatively, the two sensors are integrated into a single unit including a plurality of censor cells.